"It's an awful, awful ruling. We're going to fight this, tooth and nail. And the first thing we're going to do, when we get back there in the Senate, is urge — put a vote on the floor urging an intervention in the case," Schumer said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

U.S. District Court Judge Reed O'Connor ruled on Friday that the health-care law is unconstitutional because of the law's individual mandate, but lawmakers and legal experts from both parties have said they expect the ruling will be overturned.

Schumer said Sunday that he expects the ruling will be overturned and said the ruling "puts a lot of our Republicans in a box."